Minneapolis, Kan. – A Maine man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison
after being convicted by a jury of first degree murder and related crimes in
Kansas, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.
Robert Willard Colson, 35, of Bucksport, Maine, was
sentenced by Judge Rene Young to life in prison without the possibility of
parole for 25 years. In June, an Ottawa County jury found Colson guilty of one
count of first-degree felony murder, two counts of felony theft and one count
of burglary. The charges stemmed from the 2017 death of Matthew Miles Schoshke
in rural Ottawa County.
The case was investigated by the Kansas Bureau of
Investigation and the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the
Kansas Highway Patrol and law enforcement agencies in Maine, Colorado and
California. Assistant Attorney General Jessica Domme of Schmidt’s office
prosecuted the case with assistance from Ottawa County Attorney Richard Buck.
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